1993 Action Packed All-Star Gallery Series I Baseball Forum

Okay, I have inherited some of these and am looking for clarification from those who actually have the cards, not those who are just going to say well Beckett says this and COMC says this. Please.

TCDB and apparently COMC have two different Gold sets listed with TCDB built off what COMC has according to an admin I have already spoken with. BaseballCardPedia and Beckett only have one set of Gold cards listed, presumeably the 24K. Those give no indication on print run/serial numbers, yet COMC and TCDB do.

So here is the question: Are there 2 gold sets (one a gold trim on the 24K) of 18 cards or just 1?

The admin understanding is the "Gold" is an 18 card parallel to the first 18 cards of the main set with gold foil around the edge. However all of my cards have this gold foil so that feels unlikely and I cannot find any pictures to show me different. Now Beckett does not indicate a low print run but if you look closely on the scanned 24K gold cards, you can see a /1000 stamp on the back edge so is that just missing from the Beckett website? But the numbering on the 24K looks like it is just '1' '2' '3' etc whereas apparently the gold is supposed to have '1G' '2G' '3G'.

So if someone has a bunch of these, can you clarify? Again, can we please keep away from "Beckett has this but Beckett sucks, COMC has this so it must be right" etc. Thank you.

There are a few things that make these sets confusing.  Not only does the base set have a gold colored foil trim, but also both the Gold and 24KT gold cards have the words "24kt Gold" on them.  

The base cards have gold foil trim, but do not say "24KT Gold":

Base

The Gold set has actual gold trim and says "24Kt Gold" under the Action Packed logo:

Gold

The 24KT Gold set has the entire surface covered in gold foil, and says "24KT Gold under the Action Packed Logo:

24KT Gold

Hope this helps.

-Tom

So is I am reading what you are saying correctly, literally the only difference between "Gold" and "Base" is the text 24K gold under Action Packed on the front, and the addition of a G on the card number?

Visually, yes, however, the 24KT Gold cards from Action Packed used actual gold leaf, whereas the standard cards used only gold foil. not real gold. 

In hand the color does vary significantly enough to be noticed, in scans, well, that depends on the scan quality. 

Well, thank you very much everyone. Now if all the websites could just agree that would make things so much easier (side eye at Beckett)

Would somone please fix the 1993 Action Packed Gold Baseball checklists like someone did for the 1992 set? Using the terminology that is used for the 1992 set (the 1993 A/P Golds are a little different), the 1993 24K Gold are #85 - #168 (every card has a fully gold version & SN1000), & the Gold version #19G - #65G (it is listed as 24K, should be just "Gold" like the 1992 set) is the checklist in the Database:

https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/10306/1993-Action-Packed-All-Star-Gallery---24K

The scans of the cards are wrong in this checklist (every one of them), the scans are for the 24K Gold, not the Gold (or 24K as it is incorrectly labelled), If I haven't explained it well enough here let me know and I willtry to clarify further, Thanks in advance, Mark    

I did some more research on COMC & Ebay for the 1993 Action Packed Baseball Parallel Sets. There DOESN'T appear to be a fully gold card for all #85 - #168. The checklist for the 24K Gold is as follows: #85 - #130 (46 cards) & skip-numbered to #168 (Who's On First - 1 card) = 47 cards, same number of cards as the Gold Set #19G - #65G (47 cards). This makes sense as the 1992 A/P 24K Gold Set & the "Gold" Set both have 18 cards each. Mystery solved. 

I don't know how to get back to the original IR to supply proof for it, so I will do it here. What I said in my previous post is correct:

 The checklist for the 24K Gold is as follows: #85 - #130 (46 cards) & skip-numbered to #168 (Who's On First - 1 card) = 47 cards, same number of cards as the Gold Set #19G - #65G (47 cards). This makes sense as the 1992 A/P 24K Gold Set & the "Gold" Set both have 18 cards each. Mystery solved.

These Checklists are confirmed in the ln the 2010 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (published by SCD) 

The oddball card Who's on First? (Abbott & Costello):
#168 in the 24k Gold Set is confirmed here:

 https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/1993/Action_Packed_-_All-Star_Gallery_Series_2_-_24k_Gold/168/Whos_on_First_(Bud_Abbott_Lou_Costello)/6279142

#65G in the Gold Set is confirmed here:

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1993-ABBOTT-COSTELLO-65G-24-Kt-Gold-Whos-on-First/143973354577?hash=item21857b0c51:g:xx0AAOSwTg5gSBV4